December 2009
24 posts
Google Goggles for the ‘Droid is a rockin’ cool app. Take a picture with your phone & Google tries to figure out what you captured. Awesome.
RT @physicallaws: Not surprising, but the 1st law of thermodynamics doesn’t think much of unicorns.
: pondering price of food as it relates to the price of houses in an area. The obvious: poor people have many fewer choices. The fix: dunno.
Sunday nite, & the Christmas tree is going up. Santa & his reindeer are in the yard, the Venture Bros are on tv. Qu’ils mangent de la soupe!
: is working on the very last steps of the quilted scarves i designed. lotsa fun to sew, but they’ve taken so much longer than i had planned
:never seen one in the wild, but i’m guessing that drop bears are lime green or lurid purple, since i have lots of fake fur in those colors.
:a stark call for rationality (found on a bumper sticker): Science flies to the Moon. Religion flies into buildings. (they can coexist, btw)
watching Mulan, one of my favorite Disney movies. I wish they would make the story of Liang Shanbo & Zhu Yingtai, but it’s probably too sad.
: really wants a dog who’ll looks like K.K. Slider, & doesn’t care what kind of genetic jiggery pokery it takes to get it. Come on, Science!
would rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints (the sinners are much more fun).
Linus users have such a great sense of humour. This is the warning on a program I’m installing: “Caution: Read this or clowns will eat you”.
bad: sitting in my freezing cold car, +3F, charging the battery b/c I can’t possibly drive in the snow. good: 70’s disco music on the radio.
:things suddenly took a turn, music-wise. w/ a “rock-block” of Van Halen. ‘Go ahead & jump?’ it’s sounding better & better, let me tell you.
it’s pretty clear what those spiraling lights over Norway are: a Chrono-synclastic Infundibulum. So… has anyone seen Kazak running around?
back in the saddle, er… dentist’s chair again for Root Canal IV, The Final Battle. all in all, this hasn’t been nearly as bad as I feared.
: cuddled up, watching “The Kentucky Fried Movie” for the first time in forever. I have a renewed appreciation for Zinc Oxide. Film at 11:00
tweeting from Pidgin. How awesome is that, eh?
it’s -3F, w/ a wind-chill factor of -25 or so due to high winds. it’s been snowing for 4 days & I’m out of milk & bread. off to the grocery.
:just installed Google Chrome Beta for Linux, dl’ed from Google. Easy to install, fast and responsive. Nice to have another browser option.
someone forgot to tell the snow storm that it wasn’t supposed to stay around as long as it has. we’re not complaining, though. so beautiful
Color me black raven
If you had to wear one color for the entire next year, which would you pick?
squawking raven
I wear a lot of it anyway, so… I’d choose black. It goes with anything, looks good year-‘round, and always looks good.
Becoming a mother changed my life for the better
Becoming a mother instantly gave me the most overwhelming feeling that I was part of creating something perfect and wholly wonderful. I’ve never felt more absolutely connected to the universe than when I first saw my babies.
I still feel that way when I think about my children and becoming a mother remain the single best thing about my life.
You just found a kitten – what do you name it?
You just found a kitten – what do you name it?
I almost always name kitties before I get them; finding a good name then going out in search of a kitty to match it.
A few years ago, I found a kitten but wasn’t prepared with a name. It took over two years to settle on a proper name for him (he finally decided that his name is Mrs. Norris a few months ago).
So I’m not sure what I...
A hard goodbye...
Share the hardest “goodbye” you’ve ever had to say: To my dad the last time I saw him, because I knew it would be the *last* time I’d ever see him.
And it was.